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The effect of a structured adolescent health summer programme: a quasi-experimental intervention.
- Source :
- International Nursing Review; Mar2014, Vol. 61 Issue 1, p64-72, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Background It is important to integrate adolescent health domains into pre-service nursing education in order to enhance undergraduate nursing students' competencies in promoting adolescent health. Aim To determine the effectiveness of a structured adolescent health summer programme for Chinese undergraduate nursing students. Methods A quasi-experimental design was used to evaluate differences in the Chinese undergraduate nursing students' perceived competency in promoting adolescent health. A stand-alone adolescent health course was implemented as an intervention with pre- and post-tests of a 2-week intensive summer programme in 2010. The questionnaire included demographics, adolescent health competency checklist and programme evaluation. Descriptive statistics with the Wilcoxon signed-ranks test and the Mann- Whitney U-test were used for data analysis. Results Of the 113 nursing students, seniors perceived higher adolescent health competence mean scores than the juniors in the post-test phase. Majority of nursing students revealed the increasing awareness of the importance in promoting healthy lifestyle behaviours and psychosocial well-being after attending the summer programme. They agreed that nurses do have a role to play. Limitations This 2-week summer programme may only have short-term impacts on students' perception. Conclusions A stand-alone adolescent health summer programme can prepare nursing students to respond to the health issues of adolescents by enhancing their competence in health need assessment and service delivery. Implications for nursing and health policy Nurses serve in a leadership role for health policies and programmes. In nursing education, it is important for students to understand how to put in place policies to resolve adolescent health issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CHI-squared test
CLINICAL competence
CONCEPTUAL structures
FISHER exact test
RESEARCH methodology
HEALTH policy
NURSING practice
NURSING education
SENSORY perception
QUESTIONNAIRES
STATISTICAL sampling
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
STATISTICAL hypothesis testing
STATISTICS
STUDENT attitudes
ADOLESCENT health
MEDICAL care for teenagers
U-statistics
STATISTICAL power analysis
DATA analysis
EFFECT sizes (Statistics)
HUMAN services programs
PRE-tests & post-tests
REPEATED measures design
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00208132
- Volume :
- 61
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Nursing Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 104024803
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/inr.12081